{"id":44119,"date":"2016-07-25T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44119"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:36:26","slug":"nimoy-wouldnt-have-been-in-beyond-anyhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/07\/nimoy-wouldnt-have-been-in-beyond-anyhow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimoy Wouldn&#8217;t Have Been In Beyond Anyhow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to his son <strong>Adam Nimoy<\/strong>, even if <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> hadn&#8217;t passed away prior to the shooting of <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, he would not have been in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I talked with dad extensively about it,&#8221; said Adam Nimoy. &#8220;He was very happy to be a part of this reincarnation of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, to be participating. It was very hard for him when they came with the third installment, <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, and they wanted him involved. But he had to say no because of his health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t think he could physically do it. So that was difficult for him. But he was very pleased and very happy to end his career as Spock with those cast members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy was content to have passed on the Spock character to <strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong>. &#8220;Dad was very comfortable with Zachary continuing the tradition of playing Spock,&#8221; said Adam Nimoy. &#8220;So he&#8217;s got a professional connection with Spock and the family, but he&#8217;s also got a personal connection. He&#8217;s been like a member of the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to his son Adam Nimoy, even if Leonard Nimoy hadn&#8217;t passed away prior to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2818],"tags":[8399,2409],"class_list":["post-44119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-beyond","tag-adam-nimoy","tag-nimoy"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Nimoys072516.png",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-beyond\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Beyond<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Beyond","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44121,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119\/revisions\/44121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}